After the cocktail hour, guests were greeted at the door of the Open Aire Affairs wedding tent with their escort cards and a beautiful purple, white and yellow color palette inside.

Centerpieces were simple mason jars with lemon slices and baby's breath, and tables were set with purple linens and square, white plates.

The wine bar made use of the same style galvanized pails that held flowers around the ceremony site and also featured a sangria.

Dinner, also by Duck Deli included BBQ, mac & cheese, potato salad, salad, and corn bread. The towering 5-tier wedding cake featured layers of lemon and chocolate chip cake covered in rustic buttercream frosting and accented with raffia and sunflowers. It was baked by Graeme Park's board president, Beth MacCausland, who has been creating special occasion cakes for many years (we can put you in touch with her if you happen to be in need of a cake - as chief taster, I can tell you they are delicious as well as beautiful).

So there would be no excuse not to dance, baskets of flip flops in all sizes were made available, and while I didn't have the camera on me later in the night, I can tell you this was a dancing crowd. I don't think I've seen the dance floor more packed.

Congratulations Gina and Steve and thank you for choosing Graeme Park for your special day.

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A Commonplace Book was a journal with a theme. They could be filled with recipes, quotes, letters, or poems and could be original musings, or copies of things the writer wanted to preserve. Each was unique and meant to be read by others.

Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson, noted 18th century writer, poet, and mistress of Graeme Park, kept Commonplace Books throughout her life. Blogs, a sort of 21st century Commonplace Book, seem natural to keep readers informed of what’s new (and old) at Graeme Park.

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Graeme Park was built c. 1722 for Sir William Keith, governor of the colony of Pennsylvania from 1717-1726. Keith's son-in-law, Dr. Thomas Graeme, purchased the estate in 1739 and set about updating it with the fine Georgian paneling that can still be seen in the house today. Graeme's daughter, the writer Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson, inherited the estate upon her father's death in 1772. Elizabeth's husband, whom she married in a secret ceremony, served with the British during the Revolutionary War and as a result Graeme Park was confiscated and the majority of Elizabeth's personal property sold at auction.
Graeme Park is open to the public Fridays - Sundays and to groups by appointment. Please stop by and see us!